Child Shot in Chicago. Media Yawns.

A 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama’s recent inauguration festivities has been shot to death in Chicago. Police say Hadiya Pendleton died after she was shot in the back while hanging out with a group of teens in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park about 2:30 p.m.

Middle of the day. Young girl. Gun violence. Connect the dots:

Police said Pendleton was not a gang member and was most likely not the shooter’s intended target. But most of the teens with her, who also fled the scene, are believed to be gang members, police said.

Chicago has strict gun-control laws. Chicago is run — and has been run — by powerful Democrats. Chicago is experiencing a severe crime wave.

“Our side”, brings this type of stuff up all the time, mostly the MSM and the Left ignore it and us when we do. When they do deign to comment on this type of event, it is only to state that this is just another example on how current gun laws are too lax and too spotty and that ALL guns need to be taken away from ALL people EVERYWHERE. As long as guns exist, the Left’s response to any gun violence will be that guns should only be in the hands of the government. No other point of view is acceptable to them.

wmartin: Chicago also has lots of something else….um, a certain demographic group that commits virtually all of these crimes. · 32 minutes ago

There is another side to this. Under the younger Richard Daley, the police were reined in — lest they come across the machine’s machinations — and very little effort was put into policing African-American neighborhoods. There has been a very considerable Africa-American emigration out of Chicago back to the South in search of law and order.

The CPD are in a tough position. If they crack down on the gang members who commit these crimes the Jesse Jacksons of the world will accuse them of targeting young black males. If they don’t they are called racists who do not care about crime in black neighboorhoods

At some point conservatives like Rob Long and Mollie Hemingway and Peter Robinson (or their children?) are going to have to sacrifice for the good of the nation and go to work for CBS, NBC, etc. and start playing the “news” thing straight. If Occupy Wall St. types never hear the truth, they will never understand the extent of our problems.

What you say is, the only job that Barack Obama ever had before becoming a politician was as an activist in Chicago, work that obviously had no lasting positive benefits. Obama supporters are usually taken aback when you tell them that, on average, a half dozen young people are killed in Chicago every week despite the stringent gun laws and years of social activism by Obama and Ayers and Dohrn and their ilk.

Tommy De Seno: What law would have stopped this killing? It can’t be gun control Chicago already has that.

I’d say religion, values, compassion and respect for life is the answer, but who’d listen? · 1 hour ago

The violence perpetrated in America today by Japanese immigrants–kamikaze attacks, torturing those whom they take prisoner–can similarly be explained. It is a legacy of their militaristic WWII-era regime. I wonder why it goes unreported by the media?

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After a certain point, it becomes absurd to ascribe statistical facts pertaining to certain groups’ behavior to “legacy” factors. It is difficult to see how behavior can be affected by factors many generations removed from the present one. On the other hand, one can easily see how behavior has been affected by the much more recent liberal policy legacies of welfare and public housing.

OMT, the radical chiceria has supported radical groups like the Panthers, who have been telling kids for decades that learning to read was acting white. When people like Bill Cosby try to take on the dysfunctional culture, very few blacks support him. And when whites try to point out that people like Charlie Rangel are race baiters, we are called racists.

wmartin: Chicago also has lots of something else….um, a certain demographic group that commits virtually all of these crimes.

What’s your point?

Are you suggesting blacks are criminal by nature? Don’t be coy. Have the guts to . . . um . . . come right out and say what you mean.

The stats on average IQ, and the correlation of IQ with aggressiveness and low future-time orientation, are well known.

Well known by whom? Why hide behinid the passive voice? Have you not the courage to state your conclusions explicitly? Is there a similarly well-known correlation between cowardice and low IQ in white people?

wmartin: Chicago also has lots of something else….um, a certain demographic group that commits virtually all of these crimes.

What’s your point?

Are you suggesting blacks are criminal by nature? Don’t be coy. Have the guts to . . . um . . . come right out and say what you mean.

The stats on average IQ, and the correlation of IQ with aggressiveness and low future-time orientation, are well known.

Well known by whom? Why hide behinid the passive voice? Have you not the courage to state your conclusions explicitly? Is there a similarly well-known correlation between cowardice and low IQ in white people? · 10 minutes ago

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Do you dispute the data on African-American IQ? If so, give your reasons. And if not, your entire argument is nothing but “point and sputter.”

Quite obviously, a demographic group with an average IQ of only 85 is going to be more crime-ridden than one with an average IQ two standard deviations higher.

vb: OMT, the radical chiceria has supported radical groups like the Panthers, who have been telling kids for decades that learning to read was acting white. When people like Bill Cosby try to take on the dysfunctional culture, very few blacks support him. And when whites try to point out that people like Charlie Rangel are race baiters, we are called racists.

I don’t think this goes back to slavery so much as the late 60s.

It would be difficult to overstate the harm of the Great Society welfare state to blacks, but the history of race relations in America did not begin in the late 1960.

To suggest that slavery has had little effect on the present circumstances of blacks in America is simply ludicrous. To deny that simple historical fact precludes credibility about issues affecting blacks, just as much as denying the holocaust precludes credibility on issues affecting Jews. However, one can acknowledge that historical fact without accepting it as a justification for crime by young inner city black males, reparations, affirmative action, quotas, etc.